Never in a million Years

See you around

“I’m telling you woozi, He’s gonna find out about your crush and If he does you’re gonna owe me fifty bucks cause there’s no way I’m paying Soonyoung that much money,” said Jisoo as he and Jihoon walked to the library together.

“I cannot believe you made a bet. I mean really? A bet? ,” said Jihoon as he opened the door to the building.

“And I’m pretty sure I can keep this under wraps.”

“Yeah, well let’s see how well you do with the whole discreet thing right now,” said Jisoo as he pointed towards one of the shelves. Jihoon whipped his head to the side and instantly knew what Jisoo was talking about. There in all of his perfection was Seungcheol who was looking through the books. Jihoon’s heart sped up. He contemplated whether or not he should just go and come back another time, but Jihoon was not a coward, so he made his way to one of the empty tables.

Jisoo looked at Jihoon with a hint of amusement. “Well, look at you. I thought you were for sure gonna bail, but here you are.”

“Shut it and just go on about your business.” So far Seungcheol hadn’t noticed his presence, which was exactly what Jihoon wanted, well up until Soonyoung came into the picture.

“Wooooooziiiiiii, I’ve been looking all over for you,” said Soonyoung rather loudly. Jihoon was glaring daggers at the other male. He looked over his shoulder and saw that Seungcheol had definitely noticed him now.

Soonyoung sat across him “So how’d I do. He can definitely see you now huh?” asked Soonyoung as he smirked.

“Hey that’s not fair. We agreed that we wouldn’t meddle,” whined Jisoo.

“What? it’s not like I’m screaming Jihoon obvious affection, or maybe I should.” Soonyoung opened his mouth as to scream Jihoon’s secret, but Jihoon launched his hands to Soonyoung’s mouth to prevent him from saying anything. 

Jihoon looked straight into Soonyoung’s eyes. “Don’t you dare,” he said menacingly. Meanwhile, the whole library was looking at the scene they were causing. Jihoon felt like he could die from embarrassment. He could see from his peripheral vision that Seungcheol was trying not to laugh.

“Chill out. I wasn’t going to say anything.”

Jihoon sighed. “I don’t know why I hang out with you guys.”

“Oh you love us,” said Jisoo. The people in the library went back to their own tasks as Jihoon stood up and went over to one of the shelves. ‘Sometimes being short was such a pain in the ass’ thought Jihoon as he tried to reach for a book that was beyond his reach. He was about to jump when he felt someone behind him and saw a hand reach for the book instead. He turned around ready to scold the person for taking his book, but froze in his tracks once he saw that it was Seungcheol.

“Couldn’t help but notice you needed help,” said Seungcheol as he brought the book down from the shelf. He smiled at Jihoon.

“T-thanks,” he replied.

“You’re welco—”

“Jihoon, Soonyoung says that—” Jisoo stopped in his tracks.

“Oh, I’m sorry. I’ll come back at a later time then,” he said as he put on a knowing smile. He looked at both Jihoon and Seungcheol before he chuckled and went back to his table.

Jihoon’s face went bright red. He swore he was gonna kill Jisoo once he got the chance.

“What was that about?” asked Seungcheol with a confused face.

“U-uh nothing, nothing,” replied Jihoon quickly. He didn’t notice how close they were until now. Jihoon would have stepped back, but his back was already practically touching the shelves. He cleared his throat.

“Um…”

“Oh right sorry,” said Seungcheol as he stepped back a little. Jihoon tried his best not to pass out at the moment.

“Thanks again,” he said as he quickly went back to the table leaving Seungcheol to stare after him with a frown. ‘He didn’t even take the book,’ thought Seungcheol.

“You guys suck,” said Jihoon as he smacked Jisoo upside the head.

“Ouch, I’m sorry I was only trying to help,” he said as Jihoon gathered his belongings.

“Where are you going anyways?” said Soonyoung.

“I’m going back to the dorm, where I can actually study,” he said as he left the library. Jisoo and Soonyoung took one look at each other before they burst out laughing.

“Didn’t he come in for a book or something?” asked Jisoo.

“Beats me.” They continued to laugh.

Meanwhile Seungcheol checked out the book Jihoon was reaching for and followed him outside.

“Hey, where’re you going?” Vernon asked, but was ignored.

“He’s probably going after our woozi,” he heard someone say. He turned around to see who it was that said it. It was Soonyoung.

“Soonyoung right?” asked Vernon.

“Yep, but almost everyone calls me Hoshi,” he said.

“You can see it too right? you know how they obviously like each other?” said Vernon as he sat with them.

“Dead on,” he replied.

"My names Vernon by the way."

"Nice to meet ya." Soonyoung smiled at Vernon.

Meanwhile Jihoon was walking towards his dorm when he felt a hand on his shoulder. He looked back and had the second heart attack this day.

“Hey!” said Seungcheol.

“You forgot this at the library,” he said as he handed Jihoon the book. Jihoon’s face went red once again. How could he be so stupid as to forget the one thing that he came into the library for?

“Oh right sorry,” he said as he took the book from Seungcheol.

“So it seemed like you were having quite a bit of fun in the library,” he said.

“Oh,” he laughed nervously. “My friends can be such goofs sometimes,” said Jihoon as Seungcheol laughed.

“Sorry, I didn’t introduce myself. I’m—“

“Choi Seuncheol,” said Jihoon before he could stop himself.

“Yeah, how’d you know?”

Jihoon was about to make a lame excuse, but thankfully he was interrupted.

“Cheol, Come on we have to get to our class,” said Mingyu as he approached the two.

“Hey woozi,” he greeted.

“Hi Mingyu,” Jihoon said.

“Class starts soon,” he said to Seungcheol.

“Okay. Well I’ll see you around yeah?” he asked Jihoon.

Jihoon nodded, “Yeah,” he said trying to keep his cool. Seuncheol smiled brightly as he bid him goodbye and turned to leave. Once he was out of sight, Jihoon headed back to his dorm. He couldn’t keep the smile from his face.